When the CRISPR Cas9 protein is added to a cell along with a piece of guide RNA, the Cas9 protein hooks up with the guide RNA and then moves along the strands of DNA until it finds and binds to a ...

A year later came another major breakthrough, as two groups described 2, 3 a novel gene-editing tool called CRISPR-Cas9 and demonstrated its use in eukaryotic cells. These two reports helped start ...